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## [OS] CHINA - China drills more wells, seeds clouds amid drought

Released on 2012-08-19 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 320773
Date | 2010-03-25 15:04:48
From | daniel.grafton@stratfor.com
To | os@stratfor.com
List-Name | os@stratfor.com

China drills more wells, seeds clouds amid drought
Thursday, March 25, 2010; 4:40 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032500046.html
BEIJING -- Emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations
carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades has left
millions of people without water and caused more than 1,000 schools to
close, officials said Thursday.
Provincial and national land resources bureau officials met in Kunming,
capital of the hardest-hit province of Yunnan, to discuss details of
deploying workers to dig wells and increase cloud seeding and other aid to
people in need of drinking water, according to a director at the Yunnan
Land Resources Bureau, surnamed Ma.
"The situation here will get worse in the coming months before it gets any
better, but hopefully with more wells and water being diverted to those in
need, we can help ease the situation," said Ma, who like many Chinese
officials would give only his surname.
The drought, which has left southwestern China suffering since last year,
has affected about 61 million people and left more than 12 million acres
(about 5 million hectares) barren in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing
and Guangxi, the official Xinhua News Agency cited the Ministry of Civil
Affairs as saying.
For parts of Yunnan, it is the worst drought in a century, with about 5.4
million people facing water shortages, Ma said.
Workers there are drilling daily in hopes of digging 1,035 wells by
mid-May, with 52 already functioning and 288 under way, providing 20
percent of the needed drinking water, he said.
"Cloud seeding hasn't been very successful, so even though we are drilling
for wells and diverting water from dams to people in need, new areas will
begin to suffer as long as there is no rain," said Ma.
No details were given on the cloud-seeding efforts. China has been
experimenting with weather modification for decades, using a technique
known as cloud-seeding to induce rainfall, though international scientists
say there has never been proof that such methods produce results.
China's huge land mass means drought can occur in one region while others
have record-breaking temperatures and severe storms that can cause floods.
A massive sandstorm earlier this week covered Beijing and other cities in
northern China in a layer of sand and grit.
Since late 2009, mountainous Yunnan and its neighboring provinces have
received little rainfall, causing crop and livestock losses worth 23.7
billion yuan ($3.47 billion), Xinhua said.
Neighboring Guizhou province has been hit with its worst drought in 80
years, while in Guangxi it is the worst in 50 years, according to a report
posted on the National Flood Control and Drought relief Web site.
In Guangxi, 1,100 schools were closed in the towns of Hechi and Baise this
week, affecting nearly 190,000 students and teachers, according to Xinhua.
"We're sent out teams to dig and drill for wells this week in regions that
have been hardest hit in the province," said an official who answered the
phone at the Guangxi Land Resources Bureau, who refused to give his name.
In Guangxi, where sugar cane crops have perished and white sugar
production is expected to decline this year, 67 producers have been forced
to shut down, nearly double the number during the same period last year,
Xinhua reported.
Military personnel have also been deployed to the disaster areas to
transport water from Zhejiang in the east to Guizhou and Yunnan, according
to state broadcaster China Central Television.
CCTV showed footage on its Thursday noon newscast of soldiers unloading
bottled drinking water from military trucks at a village in Yunnan.
Further south, the severe drought has dropped the Mekong River to its
lowest level in nearly 20 years after an early end to the 2009 wet season
and low rainfall during the monsoons, according to documents drafted by
the Mekong River Commission.
The Mekong, which originates in the Tibetan Plateau and flows to southeast
Asia through Yunnan, is the lifeblood for 65 million people in six
countries - Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam.
--
Daniel Grafton
Intern, STRATFOR
daniel.grafton@stratfor.com